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ON the ceion of Dominica to Great Britain in 1763, the government of the iland was included in that of Grenada and the Grenadines, Saint Vincents, and Tobago, under General Robert Melville, but afterwards it was made a eparate government under Sir William Young, in which independent tate it remained till 1778, when the iland was reduced by the French. Whilt they poeed the country, the government of it was the ame as that of the other French windward ilands; but after it was retored to England, it returned to its former independent government, and in that tate it is at preent. The